Week 11: WWW Community

60 minutes: Define Web 2.0 technologies. How are these Web 2.0 tools relevant to artistic research?  Discuss and demo: social bookmarking (delicious.com), social networking (facebook.com), folksonomies, citizen journalism, and newsfeeds as a research and communication tool for artists in particular.

30 minutes: Additional demos, time permitting:

-How to set up a delicious.com URL archive,
-How to set up a Google or Yahoo news reader/content aggregator
-How to help people find your blog/website through SEO (search engine optimization)
-How to have your blog entries post on Facebook (via Notes)
-How to have your delicious entries post on Facebook
-How to set up a Twitter account
-How to navigate and network in Second Life
-How to optimize your blog for SEO, search engine optimization, CLICK FOR HANDOUT ON SEO

>Websites to screen, time permitting
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/
http://www.artletter.com/index.html
http://ecoviz.org/
http://infosthetics.com/
http://design-milk.com/
http://transition.turbulence.org/blog

>Sketch 10

Begin to create a delicious link archive.  Please add at least 2 blogs that you deem relevant to fine art or design and tag with the “saicwired” tag. Add your delicious widget (Dashboard>Appearance>Widget) to your blog (Sketch 1) page on your website, and add your delicious link to your Blogroll, or Links page (see “Links” in Dashboard).

>Reading

Jay Rosen. “PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience.” Department of Journalism at New York University. 27 Jun 2006. 16 Jul 2007, http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html

Mattathias Schwartz, “The Trolls Among Us,” NYTimes Magazine August 3, 2008.

>Writing

Write a short post on your blog about either article.  Start your post by asking a question that you would like to ask your classmates about the article, i.e. “Have any of you ever been a victim of trolling?”